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Refugees from Myanmar arrive in South Korea
Refugees from Myanmar arrived in South Korea to be resettled after having spent a long time in a refugee camp in Thailand. These are the first to benefit from South Korea’s program of resettling refugees. On Wednesday 23 December, four families from Myanmar arrived in South Korea through Incheon airport.…
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Four Chinese Workers Killed Due to Myanmar Ethnic Conflict on the Border
Four Chinese people were killed in Yunnan province by a bomb dropped from a Myanmar warplane last Friday. Though Beijing had warned of escalating violence across China’s southwestern border before. “The bomb hit a sugarcane field and killing the four workers and injuring nine others.” Xinhua agency said. Beijing has…
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South East Asia
Lives Of Low-Income People In Myanmar Look Gruelling
Myanmar daily waged labors unload sands from a ship at a construction site in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, Oct.2, 2012. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win) A woman walks on a bridge as she sells bananas in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, Oct.2, 2012. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win) Daily waged workers get rid of debris…
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Rohingya Muslims in Maylaysia Protest Against Myanmar Violence
A Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya Muslim in Malaysia holds a placard during a rally against the current violence in Myanmar, at National Mosque in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, June 17, 2012. Myanmar’s state media reported Saturday that the death toll from recent communal violence in the west has increased to 50,…
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Myanmar gov’t vows to ensure safe return of refugees to home villages
SITTWAY, MYANMAR June 15 (Xinhua) — Myanmar government has vowed to bring security back to riot-hit villages scattered in western ethnic Rakhine state to ensure the safe return of local villagers who fled the riot and sought shelter in refugee camps. In an inspection tour to Maungtaw Thursday, which was…
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Myanmar Refugees Cry: “Where Should We Go”
A Rohingya Muslim man who fled Myanmar to Bangladesh to escape religious violence, cries as he pleads from a boat after he and others were intercepted by Bangladeshi border authorities in Taknaf, Bangladesh, Wednesday, June 13, 2012. Bangladesh has turned back more than 1,500 refugees in recent days, officials said…
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Rohginya Muslims In Myanmar Escape To Bangladesh
A Rohingya Muslim family who fled Myanmar to Bangladesh to escape religious violence sits at a shelter provided by local people in Taknaf, Bangladesh, Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Bangladesh on Tuesday turned away three boats carrying 1,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in neighboring Myanmar, bringing to 1,500 the number of…
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South East Asia
Major news in Myanmar on May 30 Top news in <Myanar Times>: Electricity shortages spark wave of protests news@theasian.asia
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“I Am Flying Abroad Too”
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center right, sets a bird free during the inauguration ceremony of a branch office of her National League for Democracy Party Wednesday, May 9, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar. Suu Kyi received her first passport in 24 years on Tuesday ahead of a planned…
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Aung San Suu Kyi Comes To Parliament
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to reporters after attending a regular session of Myanmar Lower House, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Suu Kyi was set to be sworn in to Myanmar’s military-backed parliament Wednesday to take public office for the first time since launching her struggle…
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